City employing all-of-government effort aimed at finding work for illegal immigrants, emails indicate
Published: Monday, March 18th, 2024 @ 3:27 am
By: Daily Wire
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Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina blasted a teachers union boss on Wednesday for comparing the parental rights movement to proponents of segregation.
Published: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 12:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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RALEIGH: Over the past few weeks, Governor Roy Cooper has continued to sound the alarm on dangerous Republican plans that would gut funding for public education and expand private school vouchers so anyone – even a millionaire – can get taxpayer money for their children’s private school tuition.
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 9:24 am
By: Governor's Office
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Gov. Cooper recently declared a “state of emergency for public education,” claiming Republican policies aim to “choke the life out of public education” by cutting budgets, siphoning funds, and funneling tax dollars to unaccountable private schools
Published: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 9:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Pennsylvania GOP learned life lesson number one recently: don’t be so eager to work with the Left.
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2023 @ 10:55 am
By: Daily Wire
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Policy choices in response to the pandemic increased parental demand for more educational options
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 @ 2:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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From establishing Constitution restoration training to having media sanctioned by a media accountability ombudsman, Republican primary candidates for North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District are stumping on a wide range of policy ideas ahead of the May 17 primary election.
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2022 @ 8:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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For all their virtue-signaling about caring for the poor, the progressive game plan to help the poor has an abysmal track record.
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 12:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Quinnipiac University released a new poll that is once again terrible for Joe Biden and the Democrats.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 1:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Accountability for publicly funded school choice programs should primarily come through parent empowerment, not regulatory overreach. That’s the assessment of a new report from Notre Dame Law School scholar Nicole Stelle Garnett published by the Manhattan Institute.
Published: Thursday, November 11th, 2021 @ 10:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Reopening schools is the top priority of Catherine Truitt, the Republican candidate for state superintendent.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 3:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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David Harsanyi explains to National Review Online readers why he would “destroy” America’s public education system.
Published: Thursday, July 9th, 2020 @ 6:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Trump, through both his actions and words, is clearly seeking to reach out to African Americans ahead of the 2020 general election.
Published: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 @ 12:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Wherever you are in the North Carolina k-12 education debate, it’s unfortunate that things have become so politicized.
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2020 @ 8:03 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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If we are going to fix education in North Carolina, we must be willing to try something new.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2019 @ 10:09 am
By: Lindalyn Kakadelis
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Senate Bill 399, “Rehire High-Need Teachers,” would let educators who are at least six months into retirement take jobs at schools that receive D or F grades under the state’s school performance rankings.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2019 @ 1:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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One of the reasons many families choose school choice is because the traditional public school is simply not working out for them.
Published: Wednesday, January 30th, 2019 @ 5:29 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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It’s hard to feel good about the following headline: “Charter school closing due to poor performance.”
Published: Wednesday, December 19th, 2018 @ 6:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hardly a week goes by without hearing news that North Carolina or some North Carolina city or town is achieving a high ranking on a business or quality of life survey
Published: Saturday, November 24th, 2018 @ 12:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The education web site EdNC.org, recently ran an article by Adam Rhew that sounded the alarm about the lack of diversity among teachers in North Carolina’s public schools
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 6:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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On Friday, Natalie Hopkinson of Howard University wrote a piece for Huffington Post suggesting that school choice was - you guessed it - racist.
Published: Sunday, March 18th, 2018 @ 11:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Support for school choice isn't going away, although critics say otherwise
Published: Monday, August 21st, 2017 @ 3:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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That’s what I’d tell NC Policy Watch crybabies who continue to assert the policies of Republican legislators don’t support public education
Published: Sunday, July 9th, 2017 @ 12:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Last Thursday, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed legislation to significantly expand the state’s popular Empowerment Scholarship Account program
Published: Friday, May 5th, 2017 @ 8:26 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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DeVos Understands the Needs of Special Needs Children
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2017 @ 3:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What if the conventional wisdom about education in North Carolina were exactly backwards, and it was Republicans who have been more generous in funding our state's schools
Published: Tuesday, November 29th, 2016 @ 6:54 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Accountability — and our outdated concept of it — is a topic Andy Smarick of the Fordham Institute artfully explores in recent blog post “Public Accountability vs. Consumer Accountability”.
Published: Sunday, November 20th, 2016 @ 10:38 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The N.C. General Assembly's 2016-17 short session is over, the legislature has adjourned, and everyone is back in his or her district - either planning retirement or campaigning
Published: Thursday, July 28th, 2016 @ 10:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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